How itsyoungmiko Jumped From SoundCloud Latin Rapper to Billboard Hot100 Artist on the Rise
Encouraged by her family to explore her budding talent, she studied visual art at a university in Puerto Rico, where she eventually met graffiti and tattoo artists. “I ended up with a machine in my hand, and I started practicing on people who would lend themselves,” she recalls. The artist was really into Japanese style tattooing and Greek mythology.
With studio time, she began dropping tracks on SoundCloud as Young Miko in 2018. The first song she released was “Quiero,” which garnered tens of thousands of streams. “Nobody knew who I was,” she says. “SoundCloud played a big role in letting me test these waters that I had never explored before, and to start seeing people’s reaction [on the platform].”
“In Puerto Rico, SoundCloud was an era, around 2016 to 2019,” she continues. “Many artists that were very present in SoundCloud today are established artists, like Bad Bunny, Rauw Alejandro, Lyanno, Joyce Santana, Brray, and Alvarito Diaz. When you started making music, and you started under the category of SoundCloud rappers, not many people took you seriously, but [these artists] gained half a million to millions of streams in Puerto Rico. Being a tiny island, that’s a lot of streams.
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